Critical Essays on Dramatic PoetryL. Davis and C. Reymers, 1761 - 274 oldal |
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... greatest : excess . in I } J am convinced , the tragic writers of Greece , Other refpects , fuperior to the English , have mift ook horror for terror , and what is really loatblome and incredible , for the tragical and marvellous . The ...
... greatest : excess . in I } J am convinced , the tragic writers of Greece , Other refpects , fuperior to the English , have mift ook horror for terror , and what is really loatblome and incredible , for the tragical and marvellous . The ...
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... greatest par- tizans to French decency ; if the most delicate of the fair fex have not been offended , at it , why .fhould not Frenchmen accustom themselves to it ? Is not nature the fame through all man- -kind ? All these rules , not ...
... greatest par- tizans to French decency ; if the most delicate of the fair fex have not been offended , at it , why .fhould not Frenchmen accustom themselves to it ? Is not nature the fame through all man- -kind ? All these rules , not ...
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... great poet . There are neither far - fetched fentiments nor romantic adventures in the fourth book of Virgil ; all is extremely natural , and yet it is the greatest effort of the hu- mán mind . Racine is fo very much fuperior to [ 19 ]
... great poet . There are neither far - fetched fentiments nor romantic adventures in the fourth book of Virgil ; all is extremely natural , and yet it is the greatest effort of the hu- mán mind . Racine is fo very much fuperior to [ 19 ]
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... greatest caution , and is fufceptible of the greatest delicacies . A third reafon which feems to me to be of fome weight , is , that there were then no ac- treffes ; the women's parts were performed by men , whose faces were covered ...
... greatest caution , and is fufceptible of the greatest delicacies . A third reafon which feems to me to be of fome weight , is , that there were then no ac- treffes ; the women's parts were performed by men , whose faces were covered ...
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... greatest mark of rafhness in me , to dare to undertake a fub- ject which , Peter Corneille had already handled fo fuccefsfully . Corneille's Oedipus at that time was thought excellent ; but , for my part , I found it a very bad ...
... greatest mark of rafhness in me , to dare to undertake a fub- ject which , Peter Corneille had already handled fo fuccefsfully . Corneille's Oedipus at that time was thought excellent ; but , for my part , I found it a very bad ...
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